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music award winners subcategories
Lquilter, from your edit on Pipedreams, I gather that you don't want Category:Music award winners to contain any individual Music award winners directly. Would it be OK if I create a subcat "ASCAP Awards winners" (as described at ASCAP) and categorize Pipedreams there? Thanks for any further guidance. —Patrug (talk) 05:30, 16 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi Patrug -- Thanks for writing.


 * It's just sort of the standard for these award winner categories for them to not include articles about individuals who have won awards. Some of the award winner categories have hatnotes indicating that, and that's helpful.


 * As to whether or not to create a subcategory for any particular award (such as the ASCAP Awards), personally I would create lists of award-winners, rather than categories. I've done a lot of categories and a lot of lists, and categories have much more limited functionality and a lot of problems in keeping them accurate.   If someone else adds something in to a category (or takes it out), there is literally no way to know that other than to visually compare lists of articles in the category.  You also can't order them in any useful way -- by year, type of award, etc. -- or re-order them.  So lists (with tables if ordering by different sort keys is useful) are infinitely preferable for things like awards, which have many winners, who have each won multiple awards.


 * My 2c. --Lquilter (talk) 17:37, 16 January 2015 (UTC)


 * PS -- See WP:OCAT for more info! --Lquilter (talk) 17:50, 16 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the quick reply, Lquilter. An explanatory hatnote would indeed be helpful, but I see your point. I recently did substantial work myself on List of flautists, to provide an alternative for a hopelessly cumbersome category tree. For now, I'll create Category:ASCAP Award winners just so Pipedreams won't be dropped from Category:Music award winners entirely. As soon as I have time for the full roster of ASCAP Award winners, I'll try to organize them as a list article instead. Thanks again. —Patrug (talk) 20:21, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

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You are an atheist and you consider it to be a religion (re. Emma Goldman)? Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 01:38, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Sigh. No, I consider the "religion" section on the information box to be intended to be "views about religion", rather than some epistemologically narrow definition of "religious belief". This means that the box can be used in ways that are unsurprising to most readers, and place information where it is most relevant and most expected. --Lquilter (talk) 09:50, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

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I see that you have begun in accumulating some pieces of information around H.Rauch; I think it would be most interesting if you were to create such an article! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.6.139.62 (talk) 12:18, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
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Why did you delete my corrections/changes to Mary-Claire Kings page? She did not discover BRCA1 gene or BRCA2 gene. She worked on these genes and she published studies about these genes but she did not DISCOVER them. It had references to the BRCA1 gene or BRCA2 gene discovery papers. She is not listed as an author on either of these papers. You are making an error by allowing this misinformation to persist on wiki. Time magazine and NYT are both guilty as well. Why taint her great work with lies? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bbbogden (talk • contribs) 14:10, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

Mary-Claire King
Why did you delete my corrections/changes to Mary-Claire Kings page? She did not discover BRCA1 gene or BRCA2 gene. She worked on these genes and she published studies about these genes but she did not DISCOVER them. It had references to the BRCA1 gene or BRCA2 gene discovery papers. She is not listed as an author on either of these papers. You are making an error by allowing this misinformation to persist on wiki. Time magazine and NYT are both guilty as well. Why taint her great work with lies?Bbbogden (talk) 14:12, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi Bbbogden -- Thanks for asking. As I noted in my edit history, I posted a (lengthy) discussion about your edits & my deletion of them on Talk:Mary-Claire King.  Let's have conversation there. In the meantime, you should probably familiarize yourself with the WP:NOR (no original research) and related policies. Cheers, Lquilter (talk) 19:47, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

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Orphan work?
. This runs counter to every reliable source I have read on this topic. And it's unsourced. If you add it back please provide a reliable secondary source. Thank you. -- Green  C  16:15, 23 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Actually, the original text included the false (and unsourced) claim that the court found that the work was in the public domain. As much as I would have liked that holding, it is sadly not true. Unfortunately, I've seen a few headlines misreporting the decision as a finding that HBTY is in the public domain, which is definitely confusing.  But the text of the articles that I've seen has actually not propounded the confusion.  Anyway, I removed that text, and I'm happy to see that it hasn't been put back.  Secondly, I added the text about it being an orphan work.  That's just an explanation for the reader, based on the basic definition of an orphan work, which is one whose copyright status or owner is indeterminate.  As a basic definition, it's both useful to the reader, and not really the sort of thing that needs to be independently cited, IMO.  But I'll keep an eye out for sourcing, since it won't hurt, and I expect it'll be coming along shortly.


 * You mention reliable sources you've seen -- what are those? --Lquilter (talk) 19:48, 23 September 2015 (UTC)


 * -- For instance, the Wall Street Journal headline and the caption in the image says "Federal Judge Rules 'Happy Birthday' Song in Public Domain", but if you read the article, you will see that in fact nowhere in the text of the article does the author of the article actually say that -- as indeed, they really couldn't, because the judge didn't make that holding. WSJ  Headlines are very often not written by the author, and are not themselves reliable sources. Here's another article, in The Hollywood Reporter, which is also very careful to not say the song is "in the public domain": http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/happy-birthday-copyright-ruled-be-826528 .  Eriq Gardner is an excellent reporter on copyright matters, and this is a mainstream "reliable" source.  The NYT, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/23/business/media/happy-birthday-copyright-invalidated-by-judge.html, discusses the decision; again, you can see that they do not say that the decision holds the work to be in the public domain; rather, that the plaintiffs' lawyers are quoted as saying that the work would be in the public domain, de facto: "If the judge’s ruling stands, “Happy Birthday to You” would become part of the public domain. “Since no one else has ever claimed to own the copyright, we believe that as a practical matter, this means the song is public property,” said Mark C. Rifkin, a lawyer for the plaintiffs."  --Lquilter (talk)




 * This, unfortunately have to go directly to the actual ruling document itself. The court ruled that Warner does not hold a valid copyright. The court did not rule on who actually own the copyright (or if it is even copyrighted, due to it being common knowledge or copyright expiry), unfortunately. On the other hand, the headlines infer the public domain status as being published multiple times pre-1923. As for the removed text, this is not the case of orphaned work but rather it is not even copyrightable due to it being common knowledge (just like a folk song might not be copyrightable)SYSS Mouse (talk) 02:54, 24 September 2015 (UTC)


 * SYSS Mouse, headlines are not reliable sources; in newspapers, they are not typically written by the author of the article, but by copy-editors, and they can sometimes misstate the contents of the article themselves. If I recall correctly, there was quite a bit of discussion about this 8 or 10 years ago during one of the major drafting of the WP:RS guidelines.  ... As for the song being common knowledge, an uncopyrightable folk song -- I'm sorry, that's just not part of the decision; it wasn't part of the claims; it's not part of this case.  --Lquilter (talk) 02:59, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Left unanswered is who owns the copyright, if it still has a copyright. I skimmed the ruling itself and it seemed they are not sure if Hill Sisters actually had the copyright of the lyrics in the first place, it seemed. And if they did, does it still apply? (1923 clause) But this is outside the scope of the lawsuit. SYSS Mouse (talk) 03:15, 24 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Indeed, it's an interesting question, because HBTY, like many copyright works, simply has no clear documentary history. It may literally be impossible to determine its "actual" copyright status.  So courts can only resolve claims by claimants, on the basis of the evidence they have. Nobody has thus far raised a claim other than Warner, whose claims are now invalidated (at least at this stage of the game). But with a lot of money at stake, we may see other claimants come out of the woodwork.  I'm hopeful not. --Lquilter (talk) 03:20, 24 September 2015 (UTC)


 * There is no "1923 clause". Works published prior to 1923, with the authorization of the rightsholder, have passed into the public domain.  But part of the argument in this case is that earlier publications were not done with authorization of the rightsholder.  It may be completely impossible to prove authorization or lack thereof for something almost a hundred years ago -- but the burden falls on the claimant to prove they have the copyright. If Warner couldn't come up with evidence, it seems to me unlikely that anyone else will be able to -- but that's not a positive assertion of "public domain"; it's a failure to prove copyright. That's probably the best we can get for this and many other works. --Lquilter (talk) 03:23, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

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My name is Daisy and I am currently enrolled in a Feminist SF Course at the University of Oregon in which we have been assigned a wikipedia project. Myself and three other students from the class are working to revamp this page and hopefully add some great new contributions. Do you have any advice for us on what we could do to make this page even better? It would mean a lot to us little feminists! So far, we are planning a more comprehensive timeline of authors and their books, as well as go over the overall organization of the page.

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 * Hi (Daisy), S, P, & A -- Welcome!  So glad to have you here.


 * Do you mean Feminist science fiction? Thanks for checking in.  I'd start by looking back at the talk page & the history, to get a sense -- my guess is you already looked at one or both of those since you contacted me.  (-:  A timeline of notable publications / works in feminist SF history would be a great idea -- eventually to be split off.  The one thing you want to be sure of is to have references and footnotes for assertions or important works; this is true of all things in Wikipedia and especially true for gender, POC, & other minority interests, which are less understood / recognized by some editors.   --Lquilter (talk) 02:47, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Yes! I do mean that page. I was wondering also how legitimate a source an author's personal webpage would be as a source. For example, in my list I am making of authors, I am including their most notable awards and works, most of which are listed on their personal websites is not on their own Wiki page. I can find other sources most likely (like the award pages or lists on wiki or elsewhere), I just feel like linking to their own page is important? What do you think?

-Daisy --Dahlsto2 (talk) 02:23, 24 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi Daisy -- You can't use an author's individual / personal website to establish notability. But you can use it as a citation for basic facts.  It's always better to try to find a media site if you can.  Locus is a great cite for awards.  You can use databases -- like the SF Awards+ Database at http://www.sfadb.com/ -- to cite to basic facts.  .... As for linking to the author's personal page, generally, it's mostly frowned on to link to these kinds of resources in references.  They're not permanent, for one thing, and not considered "reliable sources", for another.  So they'll do in a pinch but better to get media sites.  IF your aim is to make sure that the author's website is linked, check on the Wikipedia entry for that person -- you can put the link in "external links", and/or in the infobox in the "personal website" section.  --Lquilter (talk) 17:13, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

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In page of Emotionally_focused_therapy i see mistake: between primary emotion we cannot name Anger: it is typical secondary emotion. -> Could i ask you for-, or help you to- correct this misleading?

I am completely new in Wikipedia (i just created account), thus i'd like to ask you for patience with me and i would be very happy if you could direct me to best way how to cooperate of fixing named page.

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